Lemberg Roastery & Bakery is preparing a new Leander home for two existing Central Texas food-business backgrounds. Olha Haida, founder of specialty-coffee roastery KavaOli, and Nataliia Huk, whose experience includes Smakota Catering, are behind the planned 2,305-square-foot venture at The Square at Crystal Falls.
The shop will take Suites 101 and 102 at 1900 S. Bagdad Road, inside Building 1 of the newly developed commercial center. A state registration names both women as tenants, connecting their coffee-roasting and bakery experience to a specific storefront project.
For Leander residents, that is the interesting part: the new name comes with people who have already been making and selling food and coffee locally. Lemberg would bring that experience into a roastery-and-bakery setting just south of Crystal Falls Parkway.
The Coffee Experience Behind Lemberg Roastery & Bakery
Haida has described her path to coffee in her own words. In “From Tech to Taste,” published on KavaOli’s website, she wrote about years spent in software engineering and a desire to create something tangible that she could share.
Coffee had accompanied long coding sessions. Exploring specialty beans led her to roasting, where she found familiar habits: experimenting, monitoring variables and refining a process. She began with home roasting before investing in professional equipment.
Her engineering background remained useful. Haida described logging roast data and adjusting time, temperature and airflow, alongside building systems for orders and inventory. That gives Lemberg’s coffee side a practical foundation in both product development and running a small business.
KavaOli’s own business history dates the arrival of its roaster to October 2024. Testing followed in November, and the company packed its first order in December. A redesigned website launched in June 2025 as the young business developed its identity and online presence.
Today, KavaOli markets small-batch specialty coffee, including single-origin beans and blends. Its website offers local delivery across the Leander-to-Domain area, grounding the business in the same part of the Austin region where Lemberg Roastery & Bakery will open.
The company also documents community work. In a February 2025 post, Haida reported donating all coffee-sale proceeds from a Ukrainian School ATX event to the school’s programs. That is part of KavaOli’s established history; it does not define Lemberg’s future menu or programming.
Bakery Experience Joins the New Venture
Huk brings catering and bakery experience to Lemberg Roastery & Bakery through Smakota Catering in the Liberty Hill area. Independent business listings identify Smakota with catering, cakes and pastries, while its existing work shows prepared food for gatherings.
The new filing brings Huk and Haida together under the Lemberg Roastery & Bakery name. Their backgrounds explain the pairing: one has developed a specialty-coffee operation, while the other brings experience preparing food and baked goods.
Those businesses provide context for the people behind the project, rather than a preview of every item customers will find. TCM has not independently established Lemberg’s final menu. Specific coffees or foods pictured from KavaOli and Smakota should not be read as confirmed Lemberg offerings.
Lemberg Roastery & Bakery Takes Two Suites
The physical setting is a new chapter, too. Property marketing for The Square at Crystal Falls describes a neighborhood commercial center on roughly 3.2 acres. Its three buildings provide approximately 27,000 square feet of commercial space.
Earlier state shell-construction records outlined a roughly 5,941-square-foot Building 1, a two-story Building 2 of about 17,044 square feet and a 4,000-square-foot Building 3. Later leasing measurements vary slightly, but the overall picture is a small campus of new commercial buildings.
Lemberg will occupy a substantial portion of Building 1 through its two adjoining suites. The supplied leasing plan identifies the planned bakery space and marks another 3,645 square feet as available in that version.
The location puts Lemberg Roastery & Bakery near Crystal Falls and surrounding residential neighborhoods. It offers a local destination along Bagdad Road as new commercial spaces begin taking on individual business identities.
TCM has also tracked Venvino Art Studios’ plans on South Bagdad Road. That studio occupies a separate development farther along the corridor. Both projects show how tenant buildouts can turn shell space into places residents can visit.
What’s Next for Lemberg Roastery & Bakery
The tenant-funded project carries an estimated construction cost of $250,000. Registration TABS2027002061 describes an interior finish-out within an existing retail shell and identifies Square @ Crystal Falls LLC as the owner.
The filed schedule runs from October 19 through December 14, 2026. Those are projected construction dates, not an announced opening date. The final menu and customer-opening plans remain details for the operators to announce.
For now, the project gives two local food-business backgrounds a shared address and a defined next step. Lemberg would bring Haida’s roasting experience and Huk’s bakery and catering work into one of Leander’s new neighborhood commercial centers.
Featured image: Annotated aerial identifying Lemberg’s planned space at The Square at Crystal Falls. The label is not installed storefront signage.